Indexes aren't created on import

[alexc-hollywood]

OS X / Laravel 5.4
Elasticsearch 5.4 (running, homebrew)
"laravel/scout": "^3.0",
"tamayo/laravel-scout-elastic": "^3.0",
"elasticsearch/elasticsearch": "^5.2",
QUEUE=sync

Importing the model:

php artisan scout:import "Acme\Models\Service"
Imported [Acme\Models\Service] models up to ID: 100
Imported [Acme\Models\Service] models up to ID: 200
Imported [Acme\Models\Service] models up to ID: 300
Imported [Acme\Models\Service] models up to ID: 400
Imported [Acme\Models\Service] models up to ID: 500
Imported [Acme\Models\Service] models up to ID: 530
All [Acme\Models\Service] records have been imported.

Result from http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v

health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size

Tested with all models after multiple ES restarts. Happens every time for every model.

Changing driver creates indexes successfully in MySQL or Solr.

[alexc-hollywood]

Closing this for solution: it's not immediately obvious, but fixed this by manually creating the index first so it exists (doesn't seem to be idempotent). Once it's there (all lowercase), the docs are added.